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AMASS

Near-line Storage Management Archive

AMASS, designed for direct-attached and network-attached storage environments, is a cost-efficient solution for enterprises that have more data than their disk capacity can support. AMASS transforms libraries, typically considered "off-line" storage, into truly online direct-access mass storage-enabling users, administrators, and applications to effortlessly archive terabytes or petabytes of data. AMASS presents an automated optical, tape, or DVD library as one device and one mount point, through a standard UNIX file system interface consisting of directories and files. Users or applications can save or access files residing on libraries in the same way they would with magnetic disk.

Features and Benefits

• High-performance direct access
• Supports more than 100 different libraries and 15 drive types
• Scalable file system offers infinite capacity for both large files and large numbers of files
• File system interface allows any application that can write to a disk to use near-line data
• Single mount point for multiple libraries provides simple, unified management
• InfiniteFileLife™ offers data protection through file testing and automatic rewriting of data to new media when indicated
• Block-level file access reduces disk requirements and increases system performance by retrieving only selected data from large files
• Configurable disk cache provides disk-speed file transfer to/from optical and tape libraries
• Continuous updating and journaling improves disaster recovery because index data can always be reconstructed
• Flexible volume management makes management easier by allowing users to group associated data within libraries
• Supports TCP/IP, FTP, NFS, RFS, Netware, LAN Manager, and AppleShare to provide full support for applications where multiple operating systems access data through a single UNIX server